Past Sai Messages for the Day
Monday, January 31, 2022
Entrust to the Lord, before it is too late, your mind and let Him shape it as He likes. Assign to your mind the task of serving the Lord and it will grow tame. You do not hand over the goldsmith an ornament that is quite nice, you give him for repairs or reshaping, the ornaments you feel have been broken or dented or gone out of fashion. So too, give the Lord your mind that certainly needs repair, if not complete reconstruction.
Sunday, January 30, 2022
Realize that the love that is present in everyone is common to all. It is love that has brought you all together. It is the cord of love that has bound all of you. It is the unifier, the motivator, and the bringer of joy to all. Therefore, develop love.
Saturday, January 29, 2022
Service should be the guiding principle. There should be no room for any kind of differences in rendering service. When you wish to serve society, you must be prepared to sacrifice your individual and communal interests. Such sacrifice alone will sublimate one's life.
Friday, January 28, 2022
Mutual regard, equal mindedness, and forbearance are basic qualities necessary for every human being. Only the person with these three qualities can be regarded as a true man. It is essential that everyone should cultivate these three sacred qualities.
Thursday, January 27, 2022
First of all, strengthen your faith. Without faith, all kinds of worship and all spiritual disciplines are of no use, they are a waste of time. To begin with, cultivate love. Everything grows out of love. That love will reveal to you your true self. That love will confer bliss on you.
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
The most important requisite for man in the world is truth based on thought. True thoughts constitute the proper wealth for man. But, alas, modern man makes no efforts to cultivate good thoughts. The absence of good thoughts weakens the will power. With a weak will man cannot accomplish even simple things. To achieve anything worthwhile in life, man has to strengthen his will power.
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
When you build a house, you install a door in front. What is the purpose of the door? To admit all whom you welcome and to keep out all whom you do not want. It has a double purpose, you do not keep the doors wide open, for all and sundry to come in as and when they like. So too, select the impulses, the motives, the incentives that enter your mind. Keep out the demeaning, the debasing, the deleterious. Admit the highest wisdom of the scriptures, the wisdom culled out of the crucible of experience.
Monday, January 24, 2022
Develop the love of God. All other forms of love are not love at all, but only fleeting and impermanent attachments. Man's biggest folly is forgetting his divinity. All should realize that they come "from God." All are children of God. Everyone should seek to get nearer and nearer to God.
Sunday, January 23, 2022
We are forgetting the fundamentals or root cause for the entire Universe. If there is no foundation, there can be no walls. If there are no walls, there can be no roof. You cannot live in a house that has no roof. Hence, first and foremost the foundation is very important. Based on the foundation, the pillars are raised and finally the roof is laid. Based on this analogy, self-confidence is the foundation, self-satisfaction is the wall, self-sacrifice is the roof, and finally self-realization is life. Thus, there should be a foundation for everything. That is fundamental truth.
Saturday, January 22, 2022
There is constant quest for peace. Everyone is seeking it. But peace is not to be had from the external world. Peace is within you. Only the divinity within you is the basis of peace within.
Friday, January 21, 2022
Men must firmly adhere to the idea that "Love is God and God is Love." Live in Love. This is the task before everyone. Where love prevails, peace will grow. To promote love, the first requisite is faith.
Thursday, January 20, 2022
Love is the foremost quality of a human being. And faith is the basis for that love. The spelling of the word love is LOVE. Here ‘L’ stands for ‘Lord’. Thus, Love is born out of the Lord (God). The entire creation is a manifestation of God’s love, be it a tiny ant or a mighty elephant. Everything is the creation of God.
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
The entire creation has its origin in God. There can be no air, sun, rain or plants without God. Knowing this truth, we still tend to forget God. On the other hand, we remember everything else. This is not correct. You should never forget God. If you forget God, it amounts to forgetting everything. For, God is the source and cause for everything.
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
Faith is the basis for all creation. Where there is faith and love, everything else will be added unto such a person. Hence, first and foremost, one has to develop faith. Many people have faith, but they lack love. Faith devoid of love has no use. Love and faith must be together like mutually attractive magnetic poles.
Monday, January 17, 2022
Love can emanate only from the heart and not any other source. Love is immortal, nectarine, blissful, and infinite. A heart filled with love is boundless. Just as rivers with different names and forms merge in the ocean and become one with it, love in many forms enters the ocean of the heart and gets identified with it.
Sunday, January 16, 2022
Wisdom alone can grant full freedom. Just as the end of culture is progress, the end of knowledge is love, so, the end of wisdom is freedom.
Sunday, January 16, 2022
There is a difference between happiness and bliss. In common parlance, "happiness" is momentary. It comes and goes. Bliss is something that wells up from within. It emerges from the heart, as a result of one's union with God. If one feels separate from God, one cannot experience bliss.
Saturday, January 15, 2022
The inner meaning of the Sun's northward journey has to be properly understood. The north is represented by Himachala. Hima means snow. It is pure, untainted and extremely cool. All these endow it with the quality of Prasanthi (Supreme Peace). Achala means that which is steady and unshakeable. Himachala does not refer to the physical Himalayan region. It represents that which is cool, peaceful and steady. From today, the Sun is said to move towards such a state. The Sun symbolizes the vision of man. The northward movement of the Sun is a call to human beings to turn their vision towards that which is cool, peaceful, and unchanging. This means that men should direct their vision inwards. This is the lesson taught by the Sun.
Friday, January 14, 2022
Humanness is very sacred, holy, and divine. The word ‘Manava ’ (human being) means very sacred. The festival of Makara Sankranthi reminds you of this truth and awakens you to this reality. The festival of Sankranthi is meant to remind man about the sanctity of humanness. It is said, God is the indweller of all beings (Easwara sarva bhutanam). Hence, every human being, nay, every living being is a part of God!
Thursday, January 13, 2022
It is only a pure and loving heart that is the source of bliss. The holy festival of Sankranthi signifies change or transformation of the heart. It is experiencing bliss arising out of the realization of the changeless, Eternal Principle. Divinity is the only principle that is changeless. God is ever blissful. In fact, He is the Embodiment of bliss.
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
The worldly outlook will deceive you and land you in grief. You do not know which articles will satisfy your inner cravings, and you try to possess whatever attracts your eye. When you crave the thought of the Lord and the company of the Godly, then you are in Uttarayana (the Northward Path, the Nobler Path).
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Each second is a fresh chance given to you for training the mind, refining the intellect, purifying the emotions, strengthening the will, for getting confirmed in the conviction that you are the deathless Self, the Infinite Consciousness (Atma).
Monday, January 10, 2022
There are some spiritual teachers who advise you to keep a daily diary, where you note down every item of evil that you did. They ask you to read it as a spiritual exercise and resolve to correct yourself. Well, reading it, and writing it will only tend to impress it more effectively on the mind. It is better to substitute good thoughts for the bad and cleanse the mind of all evil by dwelling on righteous deeds and holy thoughts. Forget the things that you do not want to remember. Bring to memory only those things that are worth remembering. That is the sane way to achieve spiritual progress.
Sunday, January 9, 2022
On the banks of the river near Lucknow, there was a sage who addressed dogs, crows, and men equally as God. He had realized the unity of all in the Divine Essence. That is the result of Divine knowledge, or intense devotion, where you do not see anything other than your Chosen Deity, wherever you turn. Be ever in that Divine Bliss, the bliss that comes from God-consciousness, always and everywhere.
Saturday, January 8, 2022
Good people are always pursued by difficulties and troubles. The messiahs, the prophets, saints and God-men have always suffered from troubles and ordeals of various kinds. You should not bother about them. Have faith in God. When you live up to the truths you believe in, you will be indifferent to what others think.
Friday, January 7, 2022
The human body is like the sugarcane filled with the juice of love. It is only when the body is subjected to hardship that the divine, sweet juice of love can flow from it. Without trouble to the body, pains to the mind, and control of the feelings, how can you expect to experience the Divine?
Thursday, January 6, 2022
Man is a product of his mind. The mind consists of a bundle of thoughts. Thoughts lead to actions. Actions are the source of joys and sorrows experienced in daily life.
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Realize that human happiness is not to be found in sensory objects or experiences. Whatever pleasure is derived from these is transient and momentary. Real and enduring bliss is to be derived from within one's self.
Tuesday, January 4, 2022
What is it that men should acquire today? It is the broadening of the heart so that it may be filled with all-embracing love. Only then the sense of spiritual oneness of all mankind can be experienced. Out of that sense of unity will be born the love of God. This love will generate pure bliss in the heart that is boundless, indescribable, and everlasting.
Monday, January 3, 2022
If you want to realize God, if you wish to experience the Divinity within you, if you want to know your true self, you have to develop pure, unsullied love. It is this that binds all people. It is described as the tether of love.